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Firefox Removes uBlock and uMatrix Remotely on Specific Websites

Preface:
On some Pixel (Exynos) google changed remotely the code without pushing updates. Users did not see any "pop-ups". The issue was probably some buggy code for "gfx/browser/yt-app" to watch some (4K) HDR youtube videos that crashed the phone (the bug restarted the phone without fully loading networking/4G/5G, one had to do restart again...).

There is some code/setting in Firefox about "remote override", rings a bell that its part of "safe spying/phishing by Google". I turned if off a long time ago and removed all parts of it. Now  starting with Firefox 115 we have these:

extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains
extensions.quarantinedDomains.enabled
extensions.quarantinedDomains.list

So it may be that if you watch youtube via "javascript executor" called Firefox you WILL see the ads and they will not be blocked. I believe- since Google is Mozilla's sponsor - it will push those "websites" to these settings and will start charging money from webistes to disable "ad block"; even worse your perfectly curated lists in uMarix/NoScript will mean a squat. It will be disabled on the websites that Mozilla has ties with (money exchange). Just like they push (and ping google) "safe spying/phishig" updates behind your back, they will "update" those lists with websites that they decided you should run java scripts and ads.  Not cool.

MY PROPOSAL:
From now on on compilation time add option to disable these options and clear all websites that are there. Just a quick warning: some time ago there was discussion by Mozilla to NOT OBEY external settings file and not load it at startup. Since then I do it always directly in about:config (just in case they decide not to obey the whole settings file or specific settings...).
 

Re: Firefox Removes uBlock and uMatrix Remotely on Specific Websites

Reply #2 –
@sonar try brave browser. it is packaged as: brave-bin